Yahoo pulls the plug on GeoCities today

Yahoo has announced that GeoCities, once one of the biggest destinations on the internet and often one of the strangest, will close its doors today after 15 years.

The web giant warned that anyone who runs a GeoCities site has until later today to back up, move or save their pages.

"If you do not download your files and images before October 26 2009, you will no longer be able to access that data. After October 26, your GeoCities files will be deleted from our servers, and will not be recoverable," the firm said on its GeoCities help page.